Chapter 4—this chapter might get a little confusing cause it kinda goes back in time and then to present. so bear with me here. oh, and Review please!
Little did Marissa know that Alex was actually still in town. She faked the whole cell phone thing. That night she had had a feeling that there would be a chance (a very small chance) that Marissa might try to talk to her after their break-up. So Alex decided to make a big scene that would be hard for onlookers to forget. She didn't fake the cell thing so that Marissa would find out and take a hint that she never wanted to see her again. Alex made a scene because she couldn't bear to see Marissa's face. So she made it that Marissa wouldn't go looking for her and find out that Alex hadn't ever left. The truth was that Alex couldn't bring herself to leave the sunny city- she couldn't bare to tear herself away from this although it was filled with painful memories, it was also filled with good ones too- the best she'd ever had to be honest. But all of these memories that were amazing and horrible included Marissa. Everywhere she went- everything she saw reminded her of their time together. She had to restrain herself from calling off the entire break-up and ask for forgiveness, but she knew that Marissa was unhappy and she deserved to be the Ryan. There was no was around it. Everyone knew that it was Ryan and Marissa forever, they were "the" couple, the two people who could never be just friends even if they weren't together. She guessed that in a matter of time Marissa would just leave her and runaway with Ryan, so she decided to end it first. In this way she tried to save her self some of the heartache that she would have to go through later. She always thought that it was better to leave than to be left- and in this situation-it was better to leave sooner than later. Well that's what she had been telling herself. It didn't matter when the relationship would have ended Alex had fallen hard and fast for Marissa Cooper and was bound to have a broken heart if they broke up a week after they started dating or a year.
Alex knew that she had to move out of her apartment- she needed to get away from her past. So, she decided to rent out one of those small houses that was literally right on the beach. (It's like the beach house that Sandy bought right before Rebecca came along). Alex couldn't ever get enough of the sand and the water- the surfing, the tanning, it was the only thing in her life that was actually good. And she knew that this area of the beach was hardly ever visited by one Marissa Cooper.
-present time-
Everything was just starting to get better for Alex. She had her "dream" house, she was beginning to make more and more friends, and she even got promoted to manager at the Bait Shop. Which was exactly what she needed seeing as she could now stay at a desk instead of risking the chance of seeing any member of the Fantastic Four- especially the one who won her heart and still kept it. Although Alex's life seemed to be getting better and better on the outside, on the inside she was fading away. She hadn't had a girlfriend or even a boyfriend since Marissa-the truth was that she didn't even bother trying simply because she already knew that no matter who she was with she would end up seeing Marissa's face or hearing her voice, so she made a choice to not get romantically involved with anyone ever again.